CEM passport processing times

[melon82]

Hey guys, i read, i heard and i have spoken to different folks on this forum with regards to how CEM hold your passport for x amount of weeks and or months before they return you it to you back. Lucky, if its within weeks. I know before back in the day they used to do it in a much slower pace, now some folks saying that they doing it much faster then they did before.

My wife sent her passport on June 30th, 2014, CEM received it on July 2nd, 2014, still no update on E-CAS (no surprises of course ).

I just wanna know from you guys any of your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, what do you guys think takes them so long, there's no valid reason for them to hold it for so long and i know for a fact that some folks are very frustrated as to how CEM handles this PPR to VISA process.

I know every embassy in the world handles it differently and i know some embassies even worse then CEM when it comes to processing application , but nevertheless, i hope CEM improves the way they handle people's applications and PPRs too..

 

[juliajulyf]

Hi! As of what I have observed from 2013 applicants theirs no definite time when are they going to hold it.Some got DM after a month,others also waited for like 3 mos for those who took remedical exams.And they are not even considering the medical validity most of the time they let us redo our medical exams. For 2014 applicants nobody knows when will CEM return their passports cus as of right now they are giving PPR to March applicants.I don't believe they can issue visas to them after 1 month of PPR, cuz their are still many of us 2013 applicants waiting.They just can't dump us and skip to those early applicants.

 

[melon82]

Hi! As of what I have observed from 2013 applicants theirs no definite time when are they going to hold it.Some got DM after a month,others also waited for like 3 mos for those who took remedical exams.And they are not even considering the medical validity most of the time they let us redo our medical exams. For 2014 applicants nobody knows when will CEM return their passports cus as of right now they are giving PPR to March applicants.I don't believe they can issue visas to them after 1 month of PPR, cuz their are still many of us 2013 applicants waiting.They just can't dump us and skip to those early applicants.

I hear you, those jerks doing what benefits them not us unfortunately :'(

 

[juliajulyf]

I hear you, those jerks doing what benefits them not us unfortunately :'(

And if your application is complicated like 20 years and up age gap, you have accompanying dependent, accompanying dependent plus non accompanying dependent it will take more time some got their visas after 6mos-9mos from PPR.